Castle
Enniscorthy Castle
🇮🇪 Ireland · 16th century
Enniscorthy Castle is situated in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland. Construction on the castle commenced in the late 1190s and was first occupied by its Norman owners in 1203 A.D. on the site of a previous wooden castle they had erected some years earlier. It was built by Philip De Prendergast.
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Enniscorthy Castle ranks #3,308 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #80 of the 107 mapped in Ireland. Founded c. 1550, it is older than 44% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 495 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Ireland compares in the castle statistics.
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